Baseball entered the FISU World University Championships programme in 2002
with a first edition organised in one of the top European baseball
nation, Italy. Indeed, on the occasion of this 1st World University
Baseball Championship, Messina gathered 203 of the best student baseball
players in the world. Since then, Asia has hosted the World University Baseball Championship twice:
in 2004 in Tainan (TPE) and in 2010 in Tokyo (JPN), while Cuba has hosted the event in 2006.

In 2015, baseball was back at the Summer Universiade for the first time since 1995 as an optionnal sport in Gwangju, South Korea. Japan won the competition.